In a video uploaded last week and flagged by angrywhitemen.org — a blog which monitors the far-right — Palmgren explained how being blocked by Paypal left their Red Ice project floundering. “PayPal has limited our ability to accept new payments and we are basically in a situation where Red Ice is currently dead in the water,” Lokteff said. “Without your help we’re not gonna be able to continue this project.”

Lokteff was apparently dumbfounded by Pay Pal’s decision. “We’re not foul-mouthed, we don’t hate anybody. [and] we don’t express violence,” she said, failing to mention that among others, Red Ice had previously held an hour-long interview with Jared Taylor, one of America’s oldest and most prominent white nationalists.

“[It’s] effectively knocked me down at the knees,” she said on Periscope. “[PayPal] was where the majority of my income for my independent journalism and commentary happened.”

Ever since the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally last August, far-right figures have found it increasingly difficult to spread their message and raise funds online in the way that made them rise in prominence in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election.

The issue has trickled down to smaller far-right groups as well. The far-right group Identity Evropa said on Gab that payment de-platforming was one of the most pressing issues they face, and asked for supporters to start sending them checks, money orders or cash.

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However, some are still finding ways to get around the de-platforming. As ThinkProgress has previously reported, two prominent white supremacists have being using a law firm in California to raise money for them via PayPal. Despite Zyniker Law being a spare, one-man operation — and the money being able to go towards supporting far-right “activism” — it still counts for PayPal as “legal defense,” and therefore does not violate policy.